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RE: Aborted cannibalization - Sony TC-500A R-t-R

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In Reply to: RE: Aborted cannibalization - Sony TC-500A R-t-R posted by GRH on March 23, 2008 at 16:05:39

Hiya, Gary:

Interesting that you liked the TC-500-A for its varous "merits". That was a pretty expensive consumer deck in its day, wasn't it!

I have a TEAC 6000 downstairs, which showed up somewhere a few years ago for $2. It also is a tube deck, but frankly, the tubes in these older Japanese decks never much impressed me.

The most interesting aspect of this discussion is how the individual parts have their own merits. No mention of the sort of capacitors inside the TC-500-A, but I wonder if they might be those oil-types?

I know for a fact that in some of the early sixties TEAC/CONCERTONE decks, that the caps had a habit of exploding, even if power was brought up slowly with a Variac.

So, if your Sony deck has Suzuki caps in it, please be careful and watchful!

But, enjoy!

Anybody here in the SF/Bay Area who would like to stop by and pick up my TEAC 6000 is welcome to do do for FREE. I have never operated it, since I never (1) had any interest and (2) did not have the correct power cord to use.

Richard Links
Berkeley, CA

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